Michelet understood the French Revolution as a collective triumph; he describes it as the destruction of a world built up by centuries of oppression, and the creation of a new order, for the ...

THE OPIUM OF THE INTELLECTUALS (324 pp.)—Raymond Aron—Doubleday ($4.50). French intellectuals are never happier than when planting the horns of a dilemma on another Frenchman’s head.

From a fantasy world of witches and pirates to a hotel on the Amalfi Coast, these summer books will transport you into a ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons ...

While Lora Jones’s debut is largely concerned with the impact of the French Revolution on the role and advancement of women (despite women’s involvement in some of the revolution’s most ...

The French vampires plan to use the Dauphin as a figurehead to overthrow the revolution ... 2021, $22.79, Books Kinokuniya). Eighteen-year-old Sabriel finds herself plunged into a world of ...